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The Meanest Thing To Say: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah’s Book Club)

February 22, 2008

Michael Reilly has introduced a new game to Little Bill and his friends. You get twelve chances to say something mean to another kid–and whoever comes up with the biggest insult is the winner. Insults start flying: “Jose hops with the frogs in science lab!” “Andrew eats frogs for dinner!” “Little Bill shoots baskets like a girl!”Little Bill tries to think of really mean things to say in retaliation. But Dad teaches him a strategy that enables Little Bill to save face while remaining the nice kid that he really is!

Customer Review: Cosby tells “stories about situations children often face.”
The Meanest Thing To Say is not about saying mean things back to mean people. And it isn’t even about mean people. What it IS about is children learning self-control, level-headedness and heart. When the new kid, Michael, calls Little Bill names, and says he has to think of the meanest things to say back the next day, Bill is frustrated and anxious. This comes up at home and his dad tells him to just say, “So?” to everything. Little Bill does this and it halts Michael. It takes two people to fight. But the moral of the story doesn’t stop here. Bill observes Michael is a new student and maybe just needs a friend. So he invites him to play basketball with him and they become friends.

Unfortunately it is reality that children can be very mean and hurtful. As parents, we need to teach our children how to handle bullies and it’s equally as important to teach them not to BE a bully. Also, just ignoring mean actions and words doesn’t always work. Everyone has good in them and we all, ages 2-102 need to offer kindness instead of anger. Great job, Cosby! Thank you and please keep writing. Peace & Soar!o8E

Customer Review: LEARN HOW TO TALK TO PEOPLE
THIS BOOK IS AN EXCELLENT LEARNING TOOL. IT IS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT AND I AM SURE IT WILL BE READ AND EACH CHILD WILL LEARN FROM IT! Buy from here…

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